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Chang, Ha-Joon.
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Chang, Ha-Joon -- Anecdotes.
Food -- Economic aspects.
Food supply -- Economic aspects.
Economics.
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Chang, Ha-Joon.
Chang, Ha-Joon -- Anecdotes.
Food -- Economic aspects.
Food supply -- Economic aspects.
Economics.
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Edible economics : a hungry economist explains the world / Ha-Joon Chang.
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Chang, Ha-Joon.
Public Affairs, Hachette Group, 2023.
Call #:
330
.01
C456e
Subjects
Chang, Ha-Joon -- Anecdotes.
Food -- Economic aspects.
Food supply -- Economic aspects.
Economics.
ISBN:
9781541700543 (hc.)
Edition:
1st US hardcover ed.
Description:
xxv, 191 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Ha-Joon Chang -- [a professor of economics at School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London] -- makes challenging economic ideas delicious by pla[n]ting them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of capitalism's entangled relationship with freedom. (...) --Jacket.
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